Silence from Telcos - Is Everything Alright?

Cellular companies of Pakistan are facing some tough time inside, as reported by an inside official of a cellular company. They are apparently facing bunch of problems in parallel. These problems are making Think Tanks to decisively operate their minds and bring the lost glory of mobile phone companies.
Mobilink is worst hit of current situation, [...]

Telecom Sector trembled in July 2008 Due to Increased Taxes

Telecom sector of Pakistan is facing some tough time in ongoing months, specifically due to significant increment in taxes on cellular services and mobile phones. Along with a factor that came into consideration was severe attitude by PTA towards cellular companies that restrained them to sale illegal SIMs.
In June 2008, cellular companies not only saw [...]

If PTCL is Changing its Mood? to Retain Customers

A Press Release posted by APP claims that PTCL has revised it local call timing pulse of 2 minute to 3 minutes. Which means that the local call tariff on PTCL landline phones of PKR 2 for two minutes has been changed to PKR 2 for three minutes.This tariff will be in effect from [...]

Not that Catchy - Economic Indicators of Pakistan Telecom for Q1 2008

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has finally issued its quarterly report on Pakistan Telecom Industry for first quarter of year 2008. In coming few days I will focus on the report and will extract the summarized information for ProPakistani Readers. In today’s post I will mainly focus on telecom sector’s economic facts and figures.
Local and Foreign Direct [...]

UAN Numbers Presented by PTA for Auction

As discussed before, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had increased the annual fee of Universal Access Numbers (UAN) from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 500,000…PTA has published an advertisement (also given below) asking bidders to register themselves for the auction of UAN numbers in 3 categories

Platinum
Diamond
Gold

Numbers are given below in PTA’s AD
How to Apply

You can register yourself to [...]